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Albouy, David "What Are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Total Value of Amenities"  Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming

All of the data are in STATA format version 13.1. The variables are labeled in the datasets.

This data collection contains two sets of files

The first set produce the wage and housing-cost differentials from the IPUMS 2000 Decennial Census data

To replicate the wage differentials use
"processwagedata.do"
with the data files
"ipums2000p_wacw_albouy.dta"
"match_puma2000_pmsa99.dta"

To replicate the housing-cost differentials use
"processpricedata.do"
with the data files
"ipums2000h_wacw_albouy.dta"
"match_puma2000_pmsa99.dta"

These data are taken from the IPUMS website (https://www.ipums.org) and the MABLE/Geocorr2K: Geographic Correspondence Engine (http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/websas/geocorr2k.html)

The main results of the paper are produced from the file stcmsa2000_wacw_albouy.dta using the do file "whatarecitiesworth.do" 

U.S. Bureau of the Census are the source for these series
cmsa statefip cmsaname state_main shortname division region pop cmsapop 
TAXSIM is the source of
stwagetax stptaxded stmortded

The Tax Policy Center is the source of
salestax foodexem 

The following are from Albouy et al. 2013 using data from the 
latitude slope_pct inv_water cdd65 hdd65 sun_a sch_cdeg. These data are at the PUMA level were averaged together using the match file provided using population as weights.

Gyourko et al. (2008) are the source of the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index.


